Inad­e­quate Equil­ibria vs. Gover­nance of the Commons

Martin Sustrik25 May 2018 13:17 UTC
184 points
17 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

De­cou­pling vs Con­tex­tu­al­is­ing Norms

Chris_Leong14 May 2018 22:44 UTC
167 points
51 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

Ter­ror­ism, Tylenol, and dan­ger­ous information

Davis_Kingsley12 May 2018 10:20 UTC
145 points
46 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­pres­sive Vocabulary

Alicorn24 May 2018 6:59 UTC
143 points
71 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Meta-Hon­esty: Firm­ing Up Hon­esty Around Its Edge-Cases

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 May 2018 0:59 UTC
134 points
152 comments27 min readLW link4 reviews

Challenges to Chris­ti­ano’s ca­pa­bil­ity am­plifi­ca­tion proposal

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 May 2018 18:18 UTC
124 points
54 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Critch on ca­reer ad­vice for ju­nior AI-x-risk-con­cerned researchers

Rob Bensinger12 May 2018 2:13 UTC
118 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

Va­ri­eties Of Ar­gu­men­ta­tive Experience

Scott Alexander8 May 2018 8:20 UTC
94 points
11 comments18 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Of Two Minds

Valentine17 May 2018 4:34 UTC
93 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing is translation

cousin_it28 May 2018 13:56 UTC
92 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Open ques­tion: are min­i­mal cir­cuits dae­mon-free?

paulfchristiano5 May 2018 22:40 UTC
83 points
70 comments2 min readLW link1 review

When is un­al­igned AI morally valuable?

paulfchristiano25 May 2018 1:57 UTC
78 points
53 comments10 min readLW link

Affor­dance Widths

ialdabaoth10 May 2018 23:37 UTC
67 points
53 comments4 min readLW link6 reviews

A Short Cel­e­bra­tory /​ Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Post

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)23 May 2018 0:02 UTC
57 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

The Berkeley Com­mu­nity & The Rest Of Us: A Re­sponse to Zvi & Benquo

Evan_Gaensbauer20 May 2018 7:19 UTC
57 points
70 comments12 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory and zero-sum game the­ory, NP and PSPACE

jessicata24 May 2018 8:03 UTC
56 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing the Longevity Re­search Institute

sarahconstantin8 May 2018 3:30 UTC
54 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Turn­ing 30

Vaniver8 May 2018 5:37 UTC
46 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Tech eco­nomics pat­tern: “Com­modi­tize Your Com­ple­ment”

gwern10 May 2018 18:54 UTC
41 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Co-Proofs

abramdemski21 May 2018 21:10 UTC
40 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Per­sonal re­la­tion­ships with goodness

KatjaGrace14 May 2018 18:50 UTC
40 points
20 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

There is a war.

Benquo24 May 2018 6:44 UTC
39 points
31 comments14 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

A Self-Re­spect Feed­back Loop

ialdabaoth11 May 2018 23:09 UTC
39 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Every­thing I ever needed to know, I learned from World of War­craft: Good­hart’s law

Said Achmiz3 May 2018 16:33 UTC
37 points
21 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(blog.obormot.net)

Bayes’ Law is About Mul­ti­ple Hy­poth­e­sis Testing

abramdemski4 May 2018 5:31 UTC
36 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Get­ting Started [warn­ing: not up-to-date]

Raemon6 May 2018 23:28 UTC
35 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on AI Safety via Debate

Vaniver9 May 2018 19:46 UTC
35 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

The sim­ple pic­ture on AI safety

Alex Flint27 May 2018 19:43 UTC
31 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Dun­can Sa­bien: “In Defense of Punch Bug”

Davis_Kingsley3 May 2018 8:26 UTC
30 points
187 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

The Con­text is Conflict

Jacob Falkovich18 May 2018 2:16 UTC
29 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Fuzzy Boundaries, Real Concepts

orthonormal7 May 2018 3:39 UTC
27 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

AI Safety via Debate

ESRogs5 May 2018 2:11 UTC
27 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.openai.com)

Every­thing I ever needed to know, I learned from World of War­craft: In­cen­tives and rewards

Said Achmiz7 May 2018 6:44 UTC
25 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(blog.obormot.net)

So­phie Grouchy on A Build-Break Model of Cooperation

weft25 May 2018 14:55 UTC
25 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(sophiegrouchy.wordpress.com)

The Se­cond Circle

Zvi20 May 2018 13:40 UTC
23 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vi­sions of Sum­mer Solstice

Raemon21 May 2018 5:50 UTC
23 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

The First Circle

Zvi18 May 2018 14:40 UTC
22 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

$5m cryp­tocur­rency dona­tion to Al­cor by Brad Arm­strong in mem­ory of LWer Hal Finney

gwern17 May 2018 20:31 UTC
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.alcor.org)

Mini-re­view: The Book of Why

Brian Slesinsky21 May 2018 23:11 UTC
21 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Upvotes, knowl­edge, stocks, and flows

Jameson Quinn10 May 2018 14:18 UTC
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Con­founded No Longer: In­sights from ‘All of Statis­tics’

TurnTrout3 May 2018 22:56 UTC
21 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

GreaterWrong—even more new fea­tures & enhancements

Said Achmiz28 May 2018 5:08 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Hy­po­thet­i­cals: The Direct Ap­pli­ca­tion Fallacy

Chris_Leong9 May 2018 14:23 UTC
21 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Brief com­ment on front­page/​per­sonal distinction

Ben Pace1 May 2018 18:53 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Overview of the Codebase

Raemon16 May 2018 23:50 UTC
20 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Words, Lo­cally Defined

abramdemski3 May 2018 23:26 UTC
19 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Triv­ial in­con­ve­niences as an an­ti­dote to akrasia

Adam Zerner18 May 2018 5:34 UTC
19 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

What are Trig­ger-Ac­tion Plans (TAPs)?

Lulie7 May 2018 18:28 UTC
18 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Talents

Benquo18 May 2018 20:30 UTC
18 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Henry Kiss­inger: AI Could Mean the End of Hu­man History

ESRogs15 May 2018 20:11 UTC
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.theatlantic.com)